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1 week ago | 
bookriot.com | Kelly Jensen
Have you ever connected with a fellow book lover because of a sticker on your laptop, water bottle, or planner? Perhaps you’ve been engaged in a book club that you’re obsessed with and want to ensure all of your fellow club members have a sticker to commemorate their time together. In any case, there’s something special about book club stickers to shout about the fun there is to be had as a reader.
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2 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | Kelly Jensen
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Three U.S. states have provisions in their state law that allow for removal of books from all public schools under certain circumstances. These are South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah.
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2 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | Kelly Jensen
Gender and sexuality are broad, wide-ranging identities. They’re fluid and can change throughout the course of anyone’s life. This is why statistics about queerness can be challenging to grapple with–per the Center for Disease Control’s 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, . That number is both quite telling, in that we know at 25% of today’s teens are queer, but it’s also not telling, because this is self-report data.
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2 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | Kelly Jensen
Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) launched its Books Unbanned program in 2022 in response to an unprecedented rise in book bans nationwide. The program offers teens unrestricted access to their entire digital collection, supports the right for teens to read what they want, and builds a network of advocates nationwide that champion the freedom to read. Now, Books Unbanned wants to help you build your own local teen freedom to read advocates with funding to support the effort.
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2 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | Kelly Jensen
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. We aren’t quite half-way through 2025–the official half-way mark will be July 1–but certainly, you’ve thought a bit about your favorite reads of the year so far. I know I have.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Kelly Jensen
1 hour agoKilled in the rainforest he hoped to help save, the journalist Dom Phillips left behind an unfinished manuscript. Those who knew him carried it forward. In 2018, the British journalist Dom Phillips joined a 17-day expedition into the Javari Valley, a vast, nearly inaccessible Indigenous land on the …
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2 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | Kelly Jensen
On Friday, June 6, Judge Richard J. Leon denied the motion made by plaintiffs in ALA vs. Sonderling for a preliminary injunction against the dismantling of the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The temporary restraining order issued in the case by the judge May 1 expired on May 29. Judge Leon’s decision in ALA vs. Sonderling came not because he agreed with the defendants and their evidence. It came because he believes the case itself was brought to the wrong court jurisdiction.
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3 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | Kelly Jensen
For years, it’s been clear that one of the most vital ways through this era of book censorship is the legal system. The results of the ongoing spate of lawsuits are a mixed bag. We’ve seen Iowa’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which involves removal of any books from schools with so-called “sex acts” in them, be blocked and deemed unconstitutional.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Kelly Jensen
13 hours agoUN human rights chief calls for US to withdraw sanctions on ICC judgesThe UN's human rights chief has demanded the US government withdraw sanctions it imposed on Thursday against four judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC). In a statement, Volker Türk said "attacks against judges" run directly counter to "respect for the rule of law and the equal protection …NowWhat has Musk accused Trump of in relation to the Epstein files?
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3 weeks ago | 
asianamericans.einnews.com | Kelly Jensen
These don’t even touch on upwards of a dozen more, nor do they cover the two federal lawsuits happening over the dismantling of the Institute for Museum and Library Services (you can read a timeline of this ongoing situation, including all of the court actions on it, over here). Another lawsuit underway right now is one that has gotten less attention than some of the others, thanks in part to the censorship issue at play taking place outside of the “typical” public library and school environment.
